by Thomas Sowell | Oct 14, 2002 | POLITICS
Among the many commemorations of the September 11th anniversary, the one at Berkeley was unique. The American flag was banned because it might offend people from other countries. “The Star Spangled Banner” was banned because it was considered too... by Nicholas Provenzo | Oct 14, 2002 | POLITICS
When I was a youngster at St. Mark’s parochial school in Buffalo, New York, I was not one of those kids on the top of the physical pecking order and occasionally, I got into the scrapes that come with such status. I remember once after mounting a rather... by William A. Levinson | Oct 14, 2002 | Business
Labor’s opposition to productivity improvements goes back at least to the early nineteenth-century Luddites.
by Brett Schaefer | Oct 14, 2002 | POLITICS, United Nations
Hollywood loves using the “it takes a thief to catch a thief” plot in its movies. But even the most creative scriptwriter couldn’t top the real-life plot twist the U.N. Commission on Human Rights will have concocted when Libya becomes its chairman.... by Alex Epstein | Oct 14, 2002 | POLITICS
In his latest Iraq speech President Bush declared that Saddam Hussein poses an immediate threat to America, that waiting any longer to deal with him is “the riskiest of all options,” that “regime change in Iraq is the only certain means of removing a... by Thomas Sowell | Oct 13, 2002 | POLITICS
I happened to run into Charles Murray in Dulles International Airport while he and Richard Herrnstein were writing “The Bell Curve.” When I asked him what he was working on and he summarized what he was writing, he could tell that I was concerned about... by Radley Balko | Oct 13, 2002 | POLITICS
Several decades ago, mathematician Edward Kasner conceived a number so large, it would exceed the total number of elementary particles in the known universe, with room to spare. He asked his nine-year-old nephew to name this new number, a one followed by one hundred... by Michelle Malkin | Oct 13, 2002 | POLITICS
Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that he despises so deeply, this black nationalist writer has had no trouble finding fellow Americans to show him love. At the top of Amiri Baraka’s donor list: The American taxpayer. In the 1960s, Baraka... by Alan Luber | Oct 13, 2002 | POLITICS
You can talk about all of the things impacting our economy – government regulation, terrorism, the Fed’s determination in 2000 to convert a virtuous cycle into a vicious cycle – but I think that there is another problem facing our economy: flawed...
